Crap game. The devs couldn’t balance the game for shit, and when players complained enough they gaslit them with opt-in setting instead of actually fixing the base game. Not to mention the fucking lies in their stupid digital manual/map

'Cuz we are the Aqua Teens, making the homies say “ho” and the girlies wanna scream!

You need to be more strategic in your deletions, friend. It’s not a matter of how much you delete, but what you delete

The problem comes when you’ve got thirty or more badly optimized applications running at startup.

I only have Outlook and Teams starting up automatically on my work computer, and it still takes 10-15 minutes to get fully up and running from fast boot’s “shut down”. This is on an engineering workstation.

Windows 11 (and Microslop programs in general) are just unoptimized pieces of crap

Maybe we should switch to co-ops and employee-owned companies to fix that bullshit

Don’t care. They shouldn’t have made the deal to begin with

Sounds like a skill issue on your part. Cope harder.

I always assumed it was a braindead choice by IT but maybe it’s a driver issue.

It’s likely both. Part of the problem is Windows’ “fast boot” setting. When enabled, the “shut down” button actually puts the computer into hibernate mode. Only restarting properly power cycles the system. In many companies, the option is enabled by default and IT departments lock employees out of changing it.

Another part of the problem is that the option is needed at all. If the OS wasn’t completely bloated it would boot up quickly anyways

I mean it should be a no brainer

Key word being should. I haven’t looked into these options yet, but there’s a reason Microslot has a reputation for hiding setting

Would Bazzite users just be wearing flip flops?

Bullshit. Killing off SMS mfa just forces everyone into walled gardens

beyond…you know…every door is a loading screen

What’s even weirder is that it’s not even required by Creation Engine. You can get everywhere in New Alexandria without loading screens, the level designers just fucked up

There’s a video essay that covers this topic: Where are all the Skyrim Killers

The big takeaway is that it’s really expensive to do, and it’s only gotten more expensive since Morrowind with the expectation of fully voice acted dialogue and complex schedules. Not even Skyrim has full schedules for all NPC’s tbh.

Ok, tangent time: I have to wonder if another factor is public perception. Look at discussions on Starfield that pop up and you inevitably get people with… interesting takes.

I’ve seem people argue that Bethesda’s formula is outdated, which is ridiculous. There’s plenty of people who still enjoy going back to old games or renewing old formulas. Just look at boomer shooters, which also rely on an “antiquated formula”.

Then there’s people that haven’t picked up a Bethesda game since Skyrim, and complain about how the Creation Engine is outdated. They don’t realize that it’s gotten a lot of improvements over the years, such as updating it to a 64-bit instruction set for Fallout 4 and Skyrim Special Edition, which has drastically increased stability. Or creating ESL and ESP-FE plugins that effectively add 4095 plugin slots since the original 255 was too restrictive. Or the improvements in gunplay with Fallout 4 and Starfield. Or all the modifications they did to make Starfield even possible.

That being said, I think Bethesda should look into releasing the Creation Engine into open source. There’s some impressive work the modding community has done to add in features they care about using SKSE plugins or Community Shaders

Do I now?

I actually tried out the carnivore diet for a couple months a few years back. After the first week, I had a bm at the same time every single day. For comparison, I was averaging once per 2-3 days before that.

While I’m not a fan of the diet, the experiment did a good job of revealing who doesn’t know shit about what they’re talking about, with the subjects this time being you and @captianlezbian.

You have no idea what you’re talking about

Fukushima happened in early 2011. Your graph doesn’t start until 2016. Sketchy af.

Ok, that mobo does look good

You can sync between devices securely with syncthing.

That being said, the syncthing-fork devs are refusing to get certified with Google Play (which I support) so by the end of the year you’ll need a deGoogle’d phone

Assuming you have a degoogle’d phone. The syncthing-fork devs announced that they aren’t going to certify for Google Play when that’s made a requirement in a few months

Geothermal power is limited to specific locations, and the best source in the US, Yellowstone, can’t have power plants built by law.

And I just realized you meant geothermal HVAC. You’d probably need a lot of space to dissipate that heat, but should technically be possible